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Teaneck (United States) (AFP) – They are only teenagers, but a pair of New Jersey high school students — one Jewish and one Muslim — are tackling an issue much bigger than themselves, bridging divides in their suburb shaken by the Israel-Hamas war. The effort originated soon after the October 7 attacks by Hamas and Israel’s invasion of Gaza, when Rawda Elbatrawish, 17, took to Instagram to pitch an educational event. “I was originally going to do a protest, but I decided to do a dialogue instead,” recalled Elbatrawish, who is Muslim. Liora Pelavin, 15, a fellow student at Teaneck High School…